| Post: | Speaker |
| Body: | the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly |
| Insignia: | File:Seal of Uttar Pradesh.svg |
| Insigniacaption: | Seal of Uttar Pradesh |
| Department: | Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly |
| Member Of: | Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly |
| Appointer: | Members of the Legislative Assembly |
| Incumbent: | Satish Mahana |
| Inaugural: | Purushottam Das Tandon |
| Incumbentsince: | 29 March 2022 |
| Termlength: | During the life of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly (five years maximum) |
| Reports To: | Government of Uttar Pradesh |
| Residence: | Lucknow |
| Seat: | Vidhan Bhavan |
The Speaker of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly[1] is the presiding officer of the Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh, the main law-making body for the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The Speaker is elected in the very first meeting of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly after the general elections for a term of 5 years from amongst the members of the assembly. Speakers hold office until ceasing to be a member of the assembly or resigning from the office. The Speaker can be removed from office by a resolution passed in the assembly by an effective majority of its members. In the absence of Speaker, the meeting of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly is presided by the Deputy Speaker.
The Speaker of the Assembly:
The speaker of the legislative assembly conducts the business in house, and decides whether a bill is a money bill or not. They maintain discipline and decorum in the house and can punish a member for their unruly behaviour by suspending them. They also permit the moving of various kinds of motions and resolutions such as a motion of no confidence, motion of adjournment, motion of censure and calling attention notice as per the rules. The speaker decides on the agenda to be taken up for discussion during the meeting. The date of election of the speaker is fixed by the Governor of Uttar Pradesh. Further, all comments and speeches made by members of the House are addressed to the speaker. The speaker is answerable to the house. Both the speaker and deputy speaker may be removed by a resolution passed by the majority of the members.
| No | Portrait | Name | Constituency | Term[2] | Assembly | Party | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Purushottam Das Tandon | 31 July 1937 | 10 August 1950 | Indian National Congress | |||||
| 2 | Nafisul Hasan | 21 December 1950 | 19 May 1952 | ||||||
| 3 | Atmaram Govind Kher | Garautha | 20 May 1952 | 4 April 1957 | 1st | ||||
| 4 April 1957 | 26 March 1962 | 2nd | |||||||
| 4 | Madan Mohan Verma | Faizabad | 26 March 1962 | 16 March 1967 | 3rd | ||||
| 5 | Jagdish Saran Agarwal | Bareilly City | 17 March 1967 | 16 March 1969 | 4th | ||||
| (3) | Atmaram Govind Kher | Garautha | 17 March 1969 | 18 March 1974 | 5th | ||||
| 6 | Vasudev Singh | Gadwara | 18 March 1974 | 12 July 1977 | 6th | ||||
| 7 | Banarasi Das | Hapur | 12 July 1977 | 26 February 1979 | 7th | Janata Party | |||
| 8 | Sripati Mishra | Isauli | 7 July 1980 | 18 July 1982 | 8th | Indian National Congress | |||
| 9 | Dharam Singh | 25 August 1982 | 15 March 1985 | ||||||
| 10 | Niyaz Hasan Khan | 15 March 1985 | 9 January 1990 | 9th | |||||
| 11 | Harikishan Srivastava | 9 January 1990 | 30 July 1991 | 10th | Janata Dal | ||||
| 12 | Keshari Nath Tripathi | Allahabad South | 30 July 1991 | 15 December 1993 | 11th | Bharatiya Janata Party | |||
| 13 | Dhaniram Verma | Bidhuna | 15 December 1993 | 20 June 1995 | 12th | Samajwadi Party | |||
| 14 | Barkhu Ram Verma | 18 July 1995 | 26 March 1997 | Bahujan Samaj Party | |||||
| (12) | Keshari Nath Tripathi | Allahabad South | 27 March 1997 | 14 May 2002 | 13th | Bharatiya Janata Party | |||
| 14 May 2002 | 19 May 2004 | 14th | |||||||
| 15 | Mata Prasad Pandey | 26 July 2004 | 18 May 2007 | Samajwadi Party | |||||
| 16 | Sukhdev Rajbhar | Lalganj | 18 May 2007 | 13 April 2012 | 15th | Bahujan Samaj Party | |||
| (15) | Mata Prasad Pandey | 13 April 2012 | 30 March 2017 | 16th | Samajwadi Party | ||||
| 17 | Hriday Narayan Dikshit | Bhagwantnagar | 30 March 2017 | 29 March 2022 | 17th | Bharatiya Janata Party | |||
| 18 | Satish Mahana | 29 March 2022 | Incumbent | 18th | |||||